MIKE KITTREDGE II

I only met him once for business but his life story is fantastic and I hope that someone will write a biography. Mr. Kittredge had a vision and I wonder if he was somehow inspired by the Simon and Garfunkel song , Puff the Magic Dragon,. There is a line in the song about bringing strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff.
How improbable is it that a person could start making candles in a relatives basement and build that enterprise into a multi billion, nationwide enterprise. I can...